[Pan-users] Re: Import from Old Version

[Duncan]

Phil <address@hidden> posted
address@hidden, excerpted below, on  Sun, 22
Jul 2007 04:34:57 -0700:

> I may be blind or something, but I can't find any "export .newrc" menu
> item/button etc in Pan 0.14.2.91, not can I find a .newsrc file in
> ~/.pan
> 
> Where is it?

You aren't blind but it is there.  It's just not quite so intuitively 
labeled. =8^)  There's an option you have to turn on somewhere... let me 
start pan.14 up and see if I can still find it...

Tools > News Servers > [select server] > Open > Newsrc checkbox.  Set the 
filename you wish to export to if necessary, OK out.

I'm not sure if pan updated the newsrc immediately, or only when you 
switched servers or exited, but do that if necessary, and you should find 
the file created as expected.  I'd suggest you do /not/ use it directly, 
in case new-pan chews it up for some reason, but make a copy of it so you 
have a backup, then move/rename the copy to ~/.pan2/newsrc-1 or whatever 
new pan file and location you are using (one per server, as I believe I 
mentioned earlier).

So yeah, the export option is there.  It's just not called that. =8^P

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